Earlier in January, the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office announced a case of a mistaken drug in Fresno. Three men who thought they were snorting cocaine turned out to have been using pure fentanyl , an opioid that’s 100 times as potent as morphine and many times stronger than heroin. Two …
Read More »Three Fentanyl Overdoses In One Day Raise Opioid Concerns In Fresno County
Law enforcement and health professionals in Fresno are reeling after three people overdosed last week on the opioid drug fentanyl. The men snorted what they thought was cocaine, said Fresno Deputy Police Chief Pat Farmer in a press conference on Monday. The three men, who took the drug together on …
Read More »California’s Fentanyl Overdoses Are Up, And They’ve Hit Kern County Hard
The state has released 2017 data on opioid trends and overdoses, and contained within those numbers is both good news and bad. First, the good news: In 2017, the statewide rate of opioid overdose deaths dropped to the lowest it’s been since 2012 . The bad news is that deaths …
Read More »Thousands have died of opioid overdoses. Merced joins lawsuit against drug makers
Merced County is one of 30 California counties suing opioid makers and distributors in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, according to the law firm handling the case. Dallas-based Baron & … Click to Continue »
Read More »Sacramento fentanyl overdoses show opiate addiction’s toll knows no boundaries
Overdoses linked to pills laced with painkiller fentanyl rise to 36 in the Sacramento area Nine deaths related to the street drug have been reported since March 24 The DEA is leading the investigation and ‘working around the clock on this’ … Click to Continue »
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